Young Generation in Constructing New Political Identity in the 1920s in the Countryside of the Southwest of Central Russia

The study aims to prove that children’s and youth’s organisations of the 1920s were effective in forming a new political identity among the peasant population in the southwest of Central Russia. Scientific novelty of the work lies in referring to the process of replacing a traditional identity of a peasant with a new political one by employing various forms of mass work in the countryside and in identifying the projects successful in influencing the peasant population of the considered region. As a result of the study, it has been revealed that the most productive form of conducting political agitation among the masses in the 1920s was involving Pioneer and Komsomol organisations, which aided in spreading a new political identity from cities to the countryside and from the young to the older generations of the peasant population.